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Echo360, the system we use to record and play back classroom lectures will be upgraded on Tuesday, January 17th. The service will be unavailable beginning at 10 am, and will be restored by 5 pm. The actual down time may be shorter. During the outage, students will not be able to watch lectures that have […]

For a brief period after the power outage, the automatic listing of WesScholar Works on faculty pages failed sporadically.  We have found the source of the trouble and made corrections so that it should not recur. Many thanks to the faculty who reported the trouble and helped us with their feedback to correct it quickly.

A minor upgrade earlier in the week included a small change to the way Q-and-A forums work:
Previously students, like teachers, could add new discussions to any forum. Now only teachers can launch a new discussion in a Q-and-A forum. Student contributi…

Just two quick reminders for instructors at the start of the semester.

To make your course available to students, please follow the demonstration or written instructions at:
http://moodle.blogs.wesleyan.edu/how-to/change-course-availability/
Our sched…

Our rintintin linux application server is fully functional again. We had some unexpected delays with MatLab because of licensing issues. Users who access the applications through a secure shell may also encounter a problem because the secure keys have changed. You’ll need to delete the old keys from your “known_hosts” file. The error message in […]

We’ve just installed a new plugin that lets you create a glossary for your site. It’s called “Explanatory Dictionary.” When a reader hovers over one of your key words, a definition you provide will appear beside your cursor. Contact your Academic Compu…

The downtime mention in the previous post has been moved two weeks out. Please check with the ITS System Announcements blog for the latest information:
https://itsinfo.blogs.wesleyan.edu

Important: Moodle users please take note! The following downtime announcement was originally posted on the ITS System Announcements blog: On Saturday morning, April 30, at 5AM there will be scheduled system maintenance to complete the major portion of the work required for our upgrade to the new Internet connection. This work is the most complex […]

It has recently come to our attention that recurring events in the Moodle calendar exhibited an unexpected behavior as we moved into Daylight Savings Time: the time for all events has shifted to be one hour later. The odd behavior should affect only recurring events that were created before the time change and that extend […]

We’ve just added WP-Polls to our roster of WordPress plugins. Now you can add a poll to your sidebar, manage multiple polls, automatically display results, etc. Contact your Academic Computing Manager if you require assistance creating or managing a po…